Facebook will likely apply for .facebook. Will Facebook apply for the new top level domain name Facebook? Most likely. This popped up on my radar today when Facebook changed the nameservers for the domain name dotFacebook.com to its main servers. I researched the domain and found that Facebook acquired it after it expired in 2010. [...]

Company officially moves into domain brokerage services. Aftermarket.com is now officially offering private domain name brokerage services. The company has recently sent solicitations about domains including WorldTradeCenter.com. But today the group sent out an email announcing its private brokerage services. It includes a list of some of the domains it has recently gotten under exclusive [...]

Beckstrom responds to advertising group with strongly worded letter. ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom has responded (pdf) to a letter (pdf) from Association of National Advertisers (ANA) that had demanded ICANN suspend its plans for the new top level domain name program. Beckstrom informs IANA that “The assertions in your letter are either incorrect or problematic [...]

Hotel chain among end user domain name buyers this week. As I do every week, here’s a look at end user domain purchases from Afternic for the past week. First let’s start with the big name: Starwood Hotels and Resorts. The company paid $1,188 for OnlyInHawaii.com. Specifically, it looks like the buyer was the Sheraton [...]

ICANN has slammed the American Association of National Advertisers for not understanding the new generic Top Level Domains process, saying the “assertions in your letter are either incorrect or problematic in several respects. Perhaps the most sever…

After only a month since the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN) approved the new gTLD program in Singapore,the generation.africa team expressed thei gratitude to have witnessed and contributed towards the historic change to the …

iCinema.com domain name topped Sedo’s weekly sales chart at $50,000.Other highlights include Men.co,leading ccTLDs at $32,000 and Umstandsmode.org,leading the other category at $8,211 EUR. .

HostingCon 2011 held in San Diego,California at the San Diego Convention Center will come to an end today .

On 24 June 2011 in Singapore, the ICANN Board approved the FY12 Operating Plan and Budget

Jeremiah Johnston has stepped down as Sedo’s Chief Operating Officerin order to launch his own legal practice .

Demand Media renews advertising deal with Google as loss widens. Demand Media released earnings this afternoon for the second quarter. Some of the GAAP financial highlights include: -Revenue up 32% compared to Q2 2010 -Net loss increased to $2.4 million -Traffic acquisition costs (the amount shared with partners) decreased from $3.1 million in Q2 2010 [...]

Long time domain industry exec steps down. Sedo has just confirmed a rumor that started peculating recently: CEO Jeremiah Johnston is leaving the company. Johnston will remain General Counsel to the company as he opens his own private practice. Honestly, with Johnston’s involvement with all of the company’s legal business I had kind of forgotten [...]

Nintendo wants to lay claim to high traffic web site. Decades after bringing the iconic video game character Mario and the Super Mario series to millions of gamers, Nintendo has decided it wants the domain name SuperMario.com. The company just filed a complaint with World Intellectual Property Forum to get the domain name. Nintendo may [...]

Conference for the web hosting industry invades San Diego. HostingCon kicked off yesterday in San Diego, bringing together the web hosting industry and its many related service providers. I arrived late in the morning and caught the last ten minutes of a talk from OpenSRS’ Adam Eisner titled “What do New TLDs Mean for your [...]

ICANN have appointed Chris LaHatte as its new ombudsman, an experienced mediator and lawyer who has practised in New Zealand, Taiwan and Central Asia, commencing in the new role on 28 July.

The 15th conference on telecommunication and IT security SECURE 2011 is taking place in October. The conference is organised by NASK, the Polish (.PL) registry, and CERT Polska, operating in the framework of the institute.

The auction for the two letter domain name Zy.com is now over .ZY.com was sold for $105,999 .

The ICM Registry announced that they successfully concluded its founders program which had been running for the last nine months .

The domain name Men.co just sold on Sedo for $32,000.This will probably be reported as one of the top ccTLD sales of the week .

On 2 August 2011,the landrush for .Asia IDN has started.This landrush will end on October 11, 2011.

As reported by Home Media Magazine, NCR has filed a motion that the BlockbusterExpress.com domain name is not to be included in litigation with Dish Network, the new owner of the Blockbuster brand as part of the Chapter 11 proceedings. On March 2, 2009, NCR and Blockbuster signed a license agreement regarding the domain right [...]

Company gets a bunch of unusable domain names in arbitration case. Is it the right strategy? Before long, Toys ‘R’ Us might be able to get into the credit card, insurance, legal, and even tattoos businesses. OK, so it doesn’t really plan to, but it just won a domain name arbitration case for 21 domain [...]

If you missed these stories, take a look. There were a couple big domain name stories last week that you may have missed, especially since some of it came out Friday afternoon. And the news all comes out of Canada. First, on Thursday I wrote about how domain name registrar Tucows (OpenSRS, Hover) is integrating [...]

Alibaba loses domain name arbitration case. Global internet giant Alibaba has lost a domain name dispute for the domain Alibaba.info because of insufficient evidence that the domain was registered in bad faith. One member of the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre panel dissented. The majority of the panel took issue with Alibaba’s evidence that [...]

One must wonder what America’s Association of National Advertisers has been doing for the last five years or so. As ICANN has been consulting about the introduction of new generic Top Level Domains, they have seemingly said nothing. Not a peep. Well…

Businesses are going defensive with .XXX with 80 per cent of pre-registrations coming from outside the adult industry says one UK-based registrar.

The Russian registry, the Coordination Center for TLD RU, has undertaken a rather unique way of promoting its ccTLD and internationalised ccTLD, .RU and .?? respectively, to the public by sponsoring an expedition of two small flex-wing trikes, an …

Even though the first quarter of 2011 had a slow start,the climate changed in the second quarter .Aktien.de was the biggest ccTLD sales in the second quarter of 2011 .

.XXX will be the Diamond Overall Sponsor of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. to be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel ,Fort Lauderdale Beach ,Florida .

AOL has won a dispute at the National Arbitration Forum over the domain wwwengadget.com .AOL claimed the name violated the trademark of its gadget blog,Engadget .